Your education career

Where your degree can take you

An education degree allows you to progress into a range of education sector career paths, social work, or moving towards educational psychology.

You can move into other graduate professions working with children and young people.

You can also progress to postgraduate or PhD study.

Degree with a placement year

Completing a 'Degree with Placement Year' degree allows you to apply for a placement year during your degree, and helps you gain valuable employment experience.

Faculty of Social Sciences Employability hub

Social sciences students have access to an employability hub based in Cornerstone in the Wave, which offers bespoke employability support.

The hub team can help you to explore career options, build experience and skills, and it organises events that are tailored to social sciences subjects.

Social sciences employability hub events

Past events have included:

• Workplace Insights - Easter Internship programme
• City Connections  Business and networking visit to London
• Meet the professional - speed networking event

Faculty of Social Sciences Employability Hub

Careers and Employability Service

While studying your course, you have access to a broad range of resources through the Careers and Employability Service.

This delivers a range of practical activities to help you develop your CV while at University and prepare for what happens after you finish your course.